Zaniyah
Zaniyah was given to 327 girls in 2025, #835 among girls’ names; 7,428 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,370 Americans named Zaniyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaniyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaniyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zaniyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaniyah?
#835 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaniyah fell from #831 in 2015 to #835 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.19 to 0.20 per 1,000.
399 babies in 2014, the peak
Zaniyah peaked in 2014, when 399 girls were given it, #705 among girls’ names. The 327 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 327 | #835 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 324 | #837 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 384 | #734 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 346 | #811 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 331 | #835 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 379 | #729 | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 329 | #827 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 337 | #810 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 337 | #811 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 321 | #875 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 338 | #831 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 399 | #705 | 0.22 |
| 2013 | 347 | #787 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 330 | #813 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 377 | #734 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 376 | #743 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 394 | #735 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 317 | #881 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 291 | #931 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 246 | #1,044 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,289 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,599 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,843 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,224 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,735 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,640 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,183 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,521 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,791 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,865 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaniyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaniyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaniyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaniyah, and how old are they?
7,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,428 Americans ever recorded as Zaniyah. The median Zaniyah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,825 people named Zaniyah (3,811 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,395 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zaniyah born?
The states with the most babies named Zaniyah are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 47 | #674 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 42 | #725 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 23 | #734 | 1.2× |
| New York | 21 | #788 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #832 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 12 | #799 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 11 | #914 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 11 | #703 | 1.4× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #518 | 1.7× |
| Maryland | 10 | #548 | 1.1× |
Where Zaniyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaniyah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1996 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zaniyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,813 babies since 1880, Zaniyah is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 327 of their 503 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zaniyah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zaniyah and names like it
- Compare Zaniyah and ZaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZaniyah peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaniyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Zaniyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaniyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.